260 SALMON AND TROUT. 



[As the taste for Trout fly fishing has increased which 

 is only another way of saying that the Trout is more fished 

 for so does the difficulty of catching him become more 

 conspicuous, and success must be sought not alone in a high 

 degree of skill in the actual use of the fly rod and line, but also 

 in refining to the very utmost every item of tackle employed. 

 To keep well out of sight of the fish it is proposed to catch is 

 another golden rule, rarely to be neglected with impunity in 

 these days of enlightenment and progress. Clearly in this case 



. . . Distance lends enchantment to the view, 



so far as at least one of the parties to the transaction is con- 

 cerned. ' Fine and far off ' is, therefore, a maxim invaluable 

 in both Trout and Grayling fishing, and appropriately intro- 

 duces the reader to the following article by the late Mr. H. R. 

 Francis, M.A., whilst at the same time sufficiently indicating 

 its scope and line of practice. H. C.-P.] 



